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Nature - sometimes sears a Sapling -
Sometimes - scalps a Tree -
Her Green People recollect it
When they do not die -

Fainter Leaves - to Further Seasons -
Dumbly testify -
We - who have the Souls -
Die oftener - Not so vitally -

c. 1862

© Emily Dickinson
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